Quote Originally Posted by beingaware View Post
Why u no cluster server or use backup like rsync to backup server....

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I don't think it's as trivial as that to set up additional instances of their web app that generates setup.alp files or produces firmware tailored to your CPU. We have no knowledge about what part of their infrastructure went down. As I said, the static files on alpupdate.com are still up. It's something in the backend that failed. And HA clustering is not trivial to integrate with your apps, and nor is rsync a valid or coherent way to back up a web app atomically to an alternate server, nor is it always a simple job to restore from such an archive of a working website.

Note that I'm not really defending the downtime either. It's horribly disruptive to ALP customers. We now can't change any nontrivial on our ALP setup because they decided the most logical way to generate config files is via a website that's now down. However, it is one of my pet peeves in the tech world that internet commenters tend to overly trivialize running infrastructure and believe they know how to run it better than others.